The Economy
As family-owned businesses were getting back up and running, congress was working on legislation to offer them the support they needed. Democrats passed the American Rescue Plan without any Republican…
Democrats passed the Enhanced Child Tax Credit in 2021 in the American Rescue Plan. “The measure increased the child tax credit from $2,000 to $3,600 for qualifying children under 6…
The GOP is vowing to lower corporate taxes immediately if they retake Congress in November, another warning sign that Republican leadership will destabilize the economy and make inflation worse if…
Florida’s Republican Senator Marco Rubio has received over $250,000 in donations from the oil and gas industries since he began his senior Senator seat in 2011. Oil companies are price…
The U.S. Treasury released the deficit figures for the end of fiscal year 2022. “The federal deficit went up every single year in the Trump administration — every single year…
The choice between combatting inflation and protecting democracy is false. The 2022 midterms are one of the most important elections of our lifetimes — democracy hangs in the balance. Almost…
“We got screwed and there was not a freaking thing we could do about it. There was no way to fight multimillionaires,” said Scott Scheuerman, a farmer who had urged…
Ted Budd, Congressman from North Carolina and current senate candidate, has taken over $195,000 from the oil, gas, and energy industries. In May, he hosted a private fundraiser with Continental…
Adam Laxalt and his wife own tens of thousands of dollars worth of stock in Chevron Corporation, ExxonMobil, and other oil and gas businesses. He works at Cooper & Kirk,…
The GOP has made inflation a key talking point this cycle. Global inflation is a problem and Democrats have been working on plans to help give relief to Americans by…
Since 2009, Ron Johnson, Senator of Wisconsin, has taken over $750,000 from the oil, gas, and energy industries. This period covers his tenure since he was first elected in 2010. …
Oil companies have pumped nearly $30 million into Republican campaigns this election cycle with House minority leader Kevin McCarthy alone getting nearly half a million dollars. Oil executives are publicly…
The Dallas Federal Reserve surveyed executives of American oil companies to find out why they weren’t drilling to meet demand among soaring gas prices. The response is unsurprising. Their investors…
The latest lie is that Biden ended U.S. energy independence. Energy independence is achieved when U.S. companies produce (and export) more oil and energy resources than we import. If you’re…
Ron Johnson, the Republican Senator from Wisconsin who is up for re-election, voted for the 2017 Trump Tax Law, known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), which gave…
J.D. Vance’s campaign is propped up by billionaires like Peter Theil and they’re not spending millions of dollars to improve your bottom line. While Ohio is gaining thousands of manufacturing…
At a time when unemployment is sinking, the stock market is reaching record highs, and wages have increased 3%, there is a lot of signs out there of a booming…
Remember when infrastructure week was just a meme, random rage tweets from one-term President Trump, photos of Jarred Kushner and Ivanka Trump (for reasons still unknown), and nothing actually getting…
For 4 years, we saw a number of spectacles from the Trump administration as they hosted “infrastructure week.” In spite of Democratic support, Trump failed to deliver even during the…
In 2016, Donald Trump promised that under his administration, “No one will gain more from tax cuts than low and middle-income Americans.” And in 2017, Congress passed the Trump-backed Tax…
Republicans have managed to create and maintain the myth that their party is best for the American economy. The facts say something different. But the facts are not on the…
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